Comparison

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips vs Math Learner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips

Enhance your arithmetic skills with engaging games, practice sets, and easy-to-remember tips. This app offers progressive difficulty levels and step-by-step solutions for all operations, suitable for all ages and skill levels.

Highlights
  • Arithmetic skill improvement
  • Practice question sets
  • Easy-to-remember tips
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Step-by-step problem solutions
  • Game Center integration (Leaderboards & Achievements)
  • Support for various digit problems
Features
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Want to improve your math skills without having to memorize a hundred tricks? Mental Math Cards is designed to help people of all ages and skill levels improve their arithmetic abilities through easy to remember (and use) tips, practice question sets, and an addictive game. Unlike many other math apps, advanced problems are also supported to keep things challenging as your skills improve. Mental Math Cards is fully integrated with Game Center - providing both Leaderboards and Achievements. The Game Center features allow you to test your skills against the rest of the world and to share your scores and accomplishments with friends. Mental Math Cards provides step by step instructions on how to approach solving all of the problems it shows - for all operations and difficulty levels. Each difficulty level for each operation type is carefully thought out to build on the skills mastered in previous levels. For instance, hard multiplication problems are shown to be solvable by breaking problems down into medium and easy level problems. Students: Prepare for the math sections of the PSAT, SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, and MCAT, as well as for regular school tests. Many tests don't allow for calculators, and greater comfort with arithmetic will still improve your scores even if calculators are allowed. Professionals: Impress colleagues, family, and friends with lightning fast and accurate mental math skills. Impress interviewers during job interviews that have quantitative component by solving problems without needing a pencil and paper. Mental Math Cards supports 1 by 1, 2 by 1, 2 by 2, and 3 by 3 digit problems. Given that flexibility, Mental Math Cards is as appropriate for use by beginning students as it is for college graduates looking to sharpen their skills for quantitative interviews and to impress friends & colleagues. Mental Math Cards supports all four of the major arithmetic operations - as well as a mixed operations mode that randomly shows all types of problems. - Addition - Subtraction - Multiplication - Division Feel free to contact me with any feedback and feature suggestions. ================================== Mental Math Cards Pro Edition Subscription Mental Math Cards provides additional features using a subscription model - that includes a 3 day trial period. Purchases will be applied to your iTunes account at the end of the trial period. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. For more information, see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service - linked below. Please visit the following link for more information on AppStore app subscriptions: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039. Our Privacy Policy: https://app.termly.io/document/privacy-policy/a868b26d-f39d-40f2-ad2d-bf5caba22382 Our Terms of Service: https://app.termly.io/document/terms-of-use-for-ios-app/f7c97c5f-d070-420c-999a-b32fdec5dcb2 ================================== Select User Reviews: ***** - Excellent! - "I was hoping something like this existed when I bought an iPhone. This is an excellent implementation of it and works just the way I was hoping. It includes a lot of well written instructions on how to master the tougher problems." ***** - Keep it up! - "This game is a fun way for grown ups to keep up on their math skills. Most adults forget half of what they have learned in school. Like most things if you don't use it you forget it. This is a cool fun way to keep those Math juices flowing!" - MonicaP Retired school teacher ***** - Epic - "This app really works I got an a+ on my math test when I studied with this app"

About

Math Learner

Learn math concepts through engaging games and pet-raising mechanics. Earn coins, hatch new pets, and watch them grow as you master addition, subtraction, multiplication, and more. Features arcade games and daily quests to keep learning fun.

Highlights
  • Pet growth and evolution
  • Arcade-style math games
  • Daily quests and events
  • Covers various math topics
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Offline play available
Features
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Learn math, grow your pet! Every right answer in Math Learner helps your pet grow, from a mystery egg to a happy grown-up companion. Clear levels, earn coins, hatch new eggs and watch your pets grow up as your math skills grow. Learn more, grow your pet • Clear a level and your pet gets bigger, stronger and happier • Earn coins in every round and spend them on eggs in the egg shop • Hatch 26 different pets, each one growing through baby, teen and adult • Your pet cheers every right answer and celebrates every level you clear • Pets are earned by learning and are never sold for real money Learn, then play Every topic has its own lesson. Polo the owl reads it aloud and works through two examples one line at a time. Then try five questions with help on hand, and play the topic in a game. From first sums to fractions • Addition and subtraction, number bonds and missing numbers • Times tables from 2× to 12×, each table drawn as rows of dots • Division, place value, rounding, odd and even numbers • Telling time, money, fractions, shapes, measuring and graphs • Number tracing for 0 to 9, and counting with pictures • Speed Run: 60 seconds of quick math facts and mental math Levels that grow with you An endless map starts at the right level for each player and gets a little harder at every step. The first 100 levels are all sums; clocks, money and fractions come after. Questions you miss come back later until they stick. Games and pets Seven arcade games turn practice into play: Balloon Pop, Boop-a-Mole, the Answer Road kart race, Apple Catch, Bridge Hop, Feed Me! and Memory Match. Earn coins in every round, buy eggs and hatch 26 pets that grow up as you learn. Pets are never sold for real money. Quests and friendly races New quests every day, seasonal events, and math races against other players or Robo, the computer racer. Players get made-up nicknames and there is no chat. Good to know • Free to play, with non-personalized ads. • An optional weekly, monthly or yearly membership removes ads, unlocks every level and doubles coins. • No accounts. Progress stays on the phone, and a one-time code moves it to a new one. • A daily time limit for each player, and a view of the week's practice. • Lessons and picture questions are read aloud. Some pictures, such as the mini-game characters and backdrops, were made with AI image tools, and Polo's voice in Learn was recorded with an open-source AI voice. Membership The membership renews automatically each week, month or year at the price shown in the app, unless it's cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://mathlearner-o69.pages.dev/privacy/ Questions or ideas: techienoid@gmail.com

Screenshots

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips4 screens
Math Learner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Mental Math Cards Games & Tips at 4.6 against Math Learner's 3.6. Mental Math Cards Games & Tips also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (60K vs 7). Math Learner's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mental Math Cards Games & Tips sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Math Learner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mental Math Cards Games & Tips has 60K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of Mental Math Cards Games & Tips's written reviews are positive against 100% of Math Learner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips ships an update fortnightly, Math Learner every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Mental Math Cards Games & Tips versus Math Learner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMental Math Cards Games & TipsMath Learner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (60K ratings) — better3.6 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews84.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings60K — better7
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#36 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB110 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicholas McNamaraManisha Yadav

Customer experience

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips

All ratings58,816 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral4.5%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews890 reviews
Positive84.9%
Neutral5.8%
Negative9.2%

Math Learner

All ratings7 ratings
Positive57.1%
Neutral14.3%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Numbers displayed incorrectly
  • Answers marked wrong when correct
  • App crashes when used continuously

Requested features

10 requests
  • Dark mode feature
  • Allow selecting specific operations
  • Different difficulty levels for each operation
  • Repeat incorrect answers for practice
  • Add decimal practice
Show 5 more
  • Add negative number practice
  • Implement column math/subtraction
  • Practice larger number operations
  • Add binary and hexadecimal practice
  • Implement multiple user profiles

Math Learner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips

Subscriptions2
  • Pro-Edition Features (1 Month)3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pro-Edition Features (1 Year)3 Days trial$14.991 Year
3 purchases

Math Learner

Subscriptions3
  • Kids Learning App Pro$0.997 Days
  • Kids Math Games Plus$2.991 Month
  • Math Games Learner Premium3 Days trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Mental Math Cards Games & Tips free?
Mental Math Cards Games & Tips is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Math Learner free?
Math Learner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mental Math Cards Games & Tips or Math Learner?
Mental Math Cards Games & Tips is rated higher. Mental Math Cards Games & Tips averages 4.6 out of 5 from 60K ratings, while Math Learner averages 3.6 from 7 ratings.
Do Mental Math Cards Games & Tips or Math Learner have ads?
Math Learner shows ads; Mental Math Cards Games & Tips does not.
Which is updated more often, Mental Math Cards Games & Tips or Math Learner?
Mental Math Cards Games & Tips ships an update fortnightly, and Math Learner every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mental Math Cards Games & Tips was updated on November 10, 2026 and Math Learner on November 8, 2026.

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